Tough At The Top is peopled with an interesting miscellany
of characters that include a wisecracking lesbian feminist who
is determined to prove that she can build a house single-handedly
with the aid of a do-it-yourself manual. Youll also meet
a devoted wife who seems equally intent on being a lifelong doormat
for her husband to wipe his muddy feet on, and a sprite from
the stone ages who inhabits the air around the other two.

While the younger women go about dealing with the challenges
of their twentieth century lives, many of which seem to be inflicted
on them by men with sexist issues, the older, centuries older
woman narrates her own story. She tells of life as it was then
and compares that with what she sees going on about her now.
She tells too, of how she was able to keep all the menfolk in
their places. Well, nearly all  excepting for the stranger
who came by to peddle the malleable bronze metal that was ultimately,
to nuke her flint arrowhead business!

The book will give you a fun summer read (well it is summer
now in my part of the world :-) It offers escapism and women
power and a satisfying demonstration of the good triumphing over
the bad and bigoted.